EC-UN JMDI Project: "Maximizing the Gains and Minimizing the Social Cost of Overseas Migration in the Philippines" Project Documents
Trainers’ Training on Financial Literacy and Peer Counseling among NGOs, LGUs and other stakeholders in the Philippines
Focus area:
- Building upon the capacities of highly skilled migrants as well as migrants professional/ entrepreneur associations for development
- Encouraging collective investment of remittances for development in countries of origin
- Reinforcing capacities of senders and recipients to further the impact of remittances on development
- Migration and Development – General
Thematic area:
Remittances and financial sector development
Related countries:
Italy
The first Training of Trainers on Financial Literacy & Peer Counseling was held from October 19 to 23, 2009 at the Splash Mountain Resort Hotel, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. The training was held in cooperation with IOM-MRF Manila, Department of Labor and Employment National Reintegration Center for OFWs (DOLE-NRCO) & Overseas Workers Welfare Administration( OWWA).
It was participated in by 31 representatives from DOLE-NRCO; government staff from the Batangas and Cavite Provincial Capitol, City of Calamba and Municipality of Mabini and Cuenca in Batangas and Alaminos and Los Banos in Laguna; master teachers and principals from the Department of Education Laguna Division; and other partners of Atikha like Bangko Kabayan, Cavite Farmers and Feedmill multi-purpose Cooperative (CAFFMACO), Visayan Forum Foundation, Philippine Social Enterprise Network and Migrant’s Association from Cuenca.
